Ioannovsky Convent
Petrogradsky District, Russia
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The Ioannovsky Convent, also known as the Convent of St. John of Rila, is an Eastern Orthodox monastery on the bank of the Karpovka River in St. Petersburg's Petrogradsky District. Founded in 1900 by John of Kronstadt as a branch of the Sura Monastery of St. John the Theologian, it is the city's largest convent and its only stauropegic nunnery. Its Neo-Byzantine pentacupolar Church of the Twelve Apostles, designed by Nikolay Nikonov, was completed in 1902 and holds the marble tomb of Saint John of Kronstadt on its ground floor.
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- Type
- architectural landmark, eastern orthodox monastery
- Heritage
- regional cultural heritage site in Russia
- Place
- Petrogradsky District, Russia
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